How much do you use?

Each person in the UK uses over ten tonnes of minerals and metals in one year, on average. This figure includes minerals commodities you use at home and a share of minerals, metals and fuels used in leisure, retail, transport, work and public facilities.

In your lifetime, this can add up to quite a lot:

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Bulk minerals

Metals

More metals

Fuel

Average quantities of the main minerals and metals that are used in a person's lifetime in the UK at 2004 rates of consumption. The volume of the mineral, metal or fuel used depends on both the mass and density.